Lead Data Analyst

Lead Data Analyst required to work with a Government department. This is an initial 4 month contract, paying £450 per day, inside IR35, remote.

Summary:
The Analysis and Performance team plays a key role in making the Department a data driven organization. We provide timely, accurate and accessible operational management information and analysis that underpins strategic and operational decisions and activities. To support this, we are currently investing in a cloud-based strategic data platform to transform the ways in which we work with data and enable us to add more value than ever to the organisation and the public.

As part of the Analysis and Performance team you will play a key role in transforming the department into a data driven organization.

Key responsibilities
Data Insight & Analysis:
*Business performance issues & solutions: Support analysis of business processes and operations through data to understand performance issues. Then give recommendations for solutions that will drive improvement.
*Build engaging modern data products: Lead the development of data models in SQL, dashboards in Power BI, analysis in R Studio, narrative and analysis in R Markdown and new data tools using R Shiny.
*Data visualisation: Lead the development and dissemination of best practise in reporting and visualising different types of quantitative information.
*Compatibility across government: develop data solutions using agile methodology and modern tools and platforms. This includes SQL, Power BI, ArcGIS, R Studio, GitHub, Trello, Python, Azure data services and AWS data-science platform.

People, Communication & Engagement:
*Stakeholders engagement: Good interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with business partners and stakeholders. Strong influencing skills, with the ability to take a complex ideas, concepts and data sets and communicate their key messages clearly in writing and verbally to a variety of audiences.
*Represent the team: Deputise for the team at senior meetings. Build cross team relationships to strengthen our reputation as a fair, collaborative, impartial and business-focused partner.
*Embed new best practice: Find and share good practices to support the development of the team, and the quality assurance of others analysis.
*Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the Data Engineering, Management Information, Reporting, and Modelling teams to appraise data requirements for analysis and support the development of new KPIs and performance measures.

You will have worked and have experience in quantitative data analysis and visualisation in a data driven role.

Please apply should you meet the above criteria

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